root account enabled

[philcamlin]

ok like a month ago i was told while installing something to enable root

sudo su

but ive been reading my comp is really vulnerable now

how can i fix this or is this even an issue ?

thanks

[credobyte]

sudo passwd -l root

[philcamlin]

sudo passwd -l root

thanks

[Trebaruna]

sudo su makes your current session root. It does not permanently enable the root account. If you can login as root then the account is active.

Even when it is active, if you have a good password protecting it there is no real problem. That is, if you don't use that account for your day to day work...

[philcamlin]

how do i chsange the root pswd

cause its not very hard

[jenkinbr]

how do i chsange the root pswd

cause its not very hard

That subject goes against the security model of ubuntu, and thusly cannot be posted here. If you want to do this, you will need to find out elsewhere (i.e. google)

Sorry.

[credobyte]

how do i chsange the root pswd

cause its not very hard

You started with "how to disable root password" and ended up with "how do I change it" ? What I'm missing here ?
If you need to do something as root, use sudo -i !

[CatKiller]

how do i chsange the root pswd

If you've only used sudo su, then you haven't enabled a root password at all. If you've run something else to enable a root password then the passwd command that credobyte gave you will lock it again.

That will generally be sufficient.

If you are concerned that users of your computer will be able to guess your user password and so use that to gain unauthorised access to your privileges using sudo, you can change your password to something stronger through the Users and Groups tool, or with

passwd <username>

from the Terminal. You can start reading about password strength here.

[philcamlin]

If you've only used sudo su, then you haven't enabled a root password at all. If you've run something else to enable a root password then the passwd command that credobyte gave you will lock it again.

That will generally be sufficient.

If you are concerned that users of your computer will be able to guess your user password and so use that to gain unauthorised access to your privileges using sudo, you can change your password to something stronger through the Users and Groups tool, or with

passwd <username>

from the Terminal. You can start reading about password strength here.

thanks that was useful